Seriously trivial thoughts
OK, I’m watching episode 142 of the DL.TV video podcast and they start talking about the “wipes” (i.e., video transitions) that their NewTek Tricaster can do. They show a few and all of a sudden, the one I did in 2000 appears! It’s not “cheeseball” as they describe. It’s cool! HAHAHA I was their Documentations …
I’ve had two XM portable devices. I sold one and haven’t used the other in months. I also doubt I’ll renew my subscription. Initially, Years ago, I thought this was a wonderful service: hundreds of channels, weather, traffic, comedy, commercial free, etc. I soon found out that there were really only a handful of stations …
My first unit had a defect in the screen and when I took it back, CompUSA didn’t have any more units. Initially, I took this as a sign that I didn’t really need one, but that didn’t last and I got a credit to my charge card and ordered another at a different store for …
OK, I finally bit the bullet and pulled the trigger on an Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. I’ll be honest; I was an owner of the prior version, the 770, but sold it after only a few months. Why? The main reason was the lack of Flash support. Supposedly, that deficiency has been fixed in the …
I have been predicting this for many years. In my opinion, California (or any of the largest states) would never join the group trying to standardize sales taxes and, thusly, begin to tax Internet sales. Looks like, for once, I was right. On the face if it, it sounds stupid for CA to not want …
Well after reading the rather poor reviews of the Thanko Silent Mouse on the Net, I was a little leary about getting the Buffalo Silent mouse. However, after using it for most of the day, it seems to be a quality product. It’s smaller than you might expect, prolly 3/4 size of a std mouse. …
Wow! This is huge! According to an article in USA Today, you’ll soon be able to buy downloadable movies from walmart.com. “New releases will be available at www.walmart.com/videodownloads on the same day they come out on DVD and will cost up to $19.88. Older films will go for up to $9.88.” “TV episodes will be …
I FINALLY found the (near) perfect MP3 player to listen to podcasts: The RIO Forge 512. The feature you really need is bookmarks. The podcasts I listen to range from 20 minutes to a couple hours. Some are weekly and some are daily. If you are bouncing between different ones, you don’t really want to …
With all of the innovation-handcuffing going on these days with DRM (digital rights management), it’s great that the government is actually doing something to benefit the consumer. This year, cable companies will be forced to open their systems to outside parties. Just like you don’t need to buy/rent your phone from the phone company anymore, …
Well after 6 months of using a “virtual” dedicated server, I have moved all my sites to a real dedicated server. The problem with the virtual type is that although they look like you are running on your own machine, in reality, you are sharing CPU and memory with whomever else is running virtual servers …